Cybersecurity in Local Government

How local government leaders and their technical experts can overcome limited resources and mitigate cyber risk with layered security.

Episode 7 of the Voices in Local Government podcast, hosted by Joe Supervielle, Parham Eftekhari, Hemant Desai, titled "Cybersecurity in Local Government" was published on December 29, 2021 and runs 34 minutes.

December 29, 2021 ·34m · Voices in Local Government

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Summary

How local government leaders and their technical experts can overcome limited resources and mitigate cyber risk with layered security.

Episode Description

Parham Eftekhari, Executive Director at the Cybersecurity Collaborative, and Hemant Desai, Chief Information Officer at the International City/County Management Association (ICMA), discuss the universal threat of cyber-attacks and the unique challenges local governments face as high-profile targets, including:

What are best practices?
What do we prioritize?
How can we train a reluctant staff?
How to translate between a city manager and the CTO role?
How can we demonstrate urgency to gain more resources?
What are realistic and measurable goals beyond did we suffer a major attack or not?

Resources:

ICMA Cybersecurity Leadership Academy

Cybersecurity Collaborative

Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency

Cybersecurity Considerations to Implement IoT

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